I'm trying to pipe in text from a command on Windows; we'll call the command "mycmd". Some output lines from mycmd end in bold characters and no matter what I try perl completely ignores these lines. Binmode does not help. 
> cmd > test_shell
> perl
my $res = `cmd`;
open (TEST, ">test_perl1");
print TEST $res;
close TEST;

open (TEST, ">test_perl2");
open (CMD, "cmd |");
binmode CMD; #Tried with and without this.
while (<CMD>) { print TEST "$_"; }
close CMD; close TEST;

#Let dos shell do io?  The 'cmd /C' bit should be superfluous.(?)
#End result is the same either way.
`cmd /C "mycmd > test_perl3"`; 
EOF

> wc -l test_shell test_perl1 test_perl2 test_perl3
  111 test_shell
  107 test_perl1
  107 test_perl2 
  107 test_perl3

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What the heck is going on here? How can Perl force the shell to throw away all lines with bold characters? I get the same results with both Perl 5.005 and Perl 5.8.8.

In reply to Perl ignores lines with bold characters from a pipe on Windows by kingkongrevenge

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